The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-17
THE LAWS OF NEW JERSEY.
lContinned from Page 3D.

CITY shall appoint, with the concurrence of
the board having charge of the finances of
such city, three commissioners, no more
than majorityof whom shall be membersto
the same political party, who shall be resi-
dents in said city and who shall givea bond
for the proper performance OF their duty
in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars,
and shall serve during the pleasure of the
appointing power and until others are APP
pointed in their places, unless removed for
cause by the mayor with the approval of
the board having charge of the finances of
said city, who shall have power to select
land suitable tor a site or sites for said pub
lie buildings. and If the lands selected shall
be upon ground the whole or any part of
which does not already belong to said city,
such commissioners shall have power to
purchase, acquire or condemn the property
with the concurrence of the board having
charge of the finances of said city, in the
name of the mayor and aldermen of said
city, and to have plans and specifications
prepared and to erect on such property
such buildings as they may deem suitable
for the purposes of this act.
8. And be it enacted, That for the pur-
poses of this act the commissioners herein
authorized shall have power to sell at pub
lie auction after due advertisement for at
least two weeks in the official papers of any
such city, such public buildings therein,
with the ground wherein the same may
stand or connected Herewith, the property
of such city, as such commissioners and
any public board of such city government
having charge of such ground or buildings
shall determine may safely be spared or
not needed tor public use, and the mayor
and aldermen shall, in case of such sale,
give good and sufficient title therefor, or
such title as the city may possess, and with
the proceeds of such sale or sales the COM
missioners herein authorized shall erect the
buildings and purchase the lands, as au-
thorized by the second section of this act,
for the accommodation of the officers of the
city government, police headquarters and
city prison and of such regiment of the ma
tional guard of this state as may be organ
lied in said city.
4, And be 1t enacted, That said commits
sioners shall organize by the selection of
one of their number as chairman, and that
all moneys for the sale of property as here
in authorized shall be paid directly into the
city treasury and kept apart for the pur-
poses of this act, and all payments made
II the purposes of this act for the pur-
chase of property or abor and materials fur
nished shall be upon orr ers or certificates
of said commissioners, signed by their
chairman, and the acts of majority of said
commissioners shall be the acts of the COM
missioners as herein authorized, and said
commissioners shall receive as full COM
pensatien for their services one hundred
dollars per month each for the time they
serve, and the chairman shall receive
twenty-five dollars per month i'll addition
thereto.
5. And be it eracted, That for the pur-
-f aokr Nf
may be necessary over and above the
amount realized by any sales as herein au-
tuorized shall be furnished and provided
by the board or authority having control of
the finances of such city in such city, by
the issue of bonds of said city, bearing in
terest at the rate of not Exceeding six per
centum per annum, to BE sold at not less
than the par value thereof, AMI said bonds
shall be- paid by taxation in not exceeding
thirty years from the date of their issue;
provided, that the whole expenditure for
the purchase of ground and erection of
buildings thereon and all purposes of this
act, including the amounts realized from
any sale or sales as herein authorized, shall
not exceed the sum of two hundred thou
sand dollars.
6. And be it enacted, That the act en-
titled ssAn act to enable cities of this state
10 furnish better accommodations for their
officers and municipal boards, as
well as the national guard of
the state therein organized, ap.
proved March twenty-ffth, one thou sand
eight hundred and eighty-four, and all
other acts or parts OF acts inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed.
s. And be 1t enacted, That this act shall
"a take effect Immediately
Approved April Is, 1887.